BonDeCroft School
BonDeCroft School is in operation east of Sparta on Highway 70 East. It is located east of Bon Air in the 13th Civil District at 8095 Crossville Highway.
The tract of land consisting of 49 acres was purchased from Carl and Earline Clemons and Willie Clemons by the white County Board of Education for $1600 January 4, 1954. This deed is made subject to a mineral reservation. There is “reserved the right to enter upon the land for the purpose of mining for or drilling for minerals and to remove the same by pipeline or otherwise.”BonDeCroft School is the result of a consolidation in 1954 of Bon Air, DeRossett, and Ravenscroft Schools. The Latin term means “the good of the land”. Earlier, other schools had consolidated including Moberry, Eastland, Clifty, and Glade Creek.
Administrators and Teachers include:
Gary Alspaugh - Miriam Gooch Anslinger - Gussie Baker – David Benn - John Brewster - Linda Cantrell - Hugh M. (Marty) Carmichael II – Dr. Sue Selby Carmichael - Henry L. Carter - Cecil Welch Chittick - Rickie P. (Lea) Condrey - Lonnie Daniels - Darnell Sims Day – Nicole H. Delaney – Mattie Mitchell Eller – Ann Darling England – Lella England – Laura Vaughn Farris – Shaun Floyd – Beecher Frasier – Carrie Godby – Joan Hennessee Graham – Rosemary Meadows Harris – Janice Jernigan Heikkenen – Charles Hennessee – Georgeanne Holeman – Hilda Goff Holman – Jennie Kinnaird Howell – Bernell Ward Hudgens – Sandra Hughes – Betty Rill Johnson – Corrine Johnson – Glenda Green Jones – Mimi Kitzrow – Robert Knight – Anthony Lawson – Mollie Little Leonard – Linda Bumbalough Mackie – Cheryl Marcom – Michael Martin – Deborah McBride – Jennifer McBride – Sherry Lynn McDonald – Erin McKee – Rachel Turner Meadows – Sherry Lowery Young Pack – Sharon Leonard Patton – Nell Pearson – Beth Peek – Dr. Barry Roberts – Betty Brown Roberts – Linda Gunter Roberts – Betty Sanderson – Terri Deal Selph – Delena Rascoe Short – William Everett Short – Hubert Sparkman – Renee Fuller Sullivan – Ruth Moyers Sullivan – William Leonard Tallent – Mary Thompson – Valerie E. Tylka – Courtney Cheek Vaughn – Pauline Hutchings Walker – Borden Weaver – Joy Welch – Stephanie Allen Wendt – Jill Hickey Wheeler – Diane Wilder and Janie Winningham.
Family names in the community include:
Bryant, Randolph, Short, Flatt, Seal, Allen, Williams, Rollins, Lewis, Anderson, Holmes, Berry, Meadows, Cantrell, Hickey, Hennessee, Welch, McBride, Cody, Tucker, Ballew, Pack, Wilkerson, and McCann.